Silver Dust – DVD

This obscure Soviet sci-fi film (made at the height of the Cold War) is unique because the setting is in the United States. Bolduman plays a scientist whose first allegiance is to money, rather than science. With a big profit motive in mind, he invents a mighty new weapon of mass destruction a deadly radioactive powder, silver gray in color, that's lethal only for a few days. Soon a no-holds-barred struggle begins between two competing corporations, all packed into an edge-of-the-seat political sci-fi storyline.

• science fiction